Padillothorax exilis ( Cao & Li, 2016 )

Wang, Cheng, Mi, Xiaoqi, Li, Shuqiang & Xu, Xiang, 2024, Taxonomic notes of jumping spiders (Araneae, Salticidae) from Guangxi, Hainan, Sichuan, Xizang and Yunnan, China, ZooKeys 1221, pp. 205-277 : 205-277

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scientific name	Padillothorax exilis ( Cao & Li, 2016 )
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Padillothorax exilis ( Cao & Li, 2016) View in CoL

Figs 18 View Figure 18 , 19 View Figure 19 , 48 View Figure 48

Bavia exilis Cao & Li, in Cao, Li & Żabka, 2016: 54, figs 7 A – D, 8 A, B (holotype ♂, not examined). View in CoL View Cited Treatment

Bavirecta exilis View in CoL : Kanesharatnam and Benjamin 2018: 8 (transferred from Bavia View in CoL ).

Padillothorax exilis View in CoL : Maddison et al. 2020: 65 (transferred from Bavirecta ).

Material examined.

1 ♂ 1 ♀ ( TRU - JS 0759–0760 ), China: • Hainan Province, Qiongzhong County, Limushan National Nature Reserve (19°9.35'N, 109°44.70'E, ca 620 m), 6. VIII. 2023, C. Wang et al. leg GoogleMaps .

Diagnosis.

The male was diagnosed in Cao et al. (2016). The female resembles that of P. casteti (Simon, 1900) in the general shape of epigyne, but differs in: 1) presence of accessory glands ( AG) of copulatory ducts (Fig. 18 D, E View Figure 18 ) vs absent (see the drawings in Prószyński 1987: 78); 2) copulatory ducts ( CD) curved distally and connected to the dorsal surface of spermathecae (S) (Fig. 18 E View Figure 18 ) vs straight distally and connected to the ventral surface of spermathecae (see the drawings in Prószyński 1987: 78).

Description.

Male. See Cao et al. (2016).

Female (Figs 18 D, E View Figure 18 , 19 C, E View Figure 19 ). Total length 5.36. Carapace 1.86 long, 1.32 wide. Abdomen 3.36 long, 1.23 wide. Eye sizes and interdistances: AME 0.45, ALE 0.18, PLE 0.18, AERW 1.14, PERW 1.05, EFL 0.77. Legs: I 5.24 (1.53, 0.93, 1.40, 0.88, 0.50), II 3.51 (1.00, 0.65, 0.85, 0.63, 0.38), III 3.18 (0.95, 0.60, 0.55, 0.70, 0.38), IV 4.36 (1.25, 0.65, 1.03, 1.05, 0.38). Carapace mainly yellow, with pair of dark stripes laterally on thoracic part, covered with sparse setae, denser on eye base. Chelicerae yellow, with four promarginal and seven retromarginal teeth. Leg I robust, with thickened femora, three and two pairs of ventral spines on tibiae and metatarsi, respectively. Dorsum of abdomen with symmetrical, alternating pale and dark patches; venter pale.

Epigyne (Fig. 18 D, E View Figure 18 ) ~ 1.3 × wider than long; atrium (At) with anterior arc-shaped ridge (AR), copulatory openings (CO) slit-shaped, partly covered by atrial ridge; copulatory ducts ( CD) thickened in walls at proximal 1 / 3, strongly curved distally, and with medially located, laterally extended accessory glands ( AG) forming round ends; spermathecae (S) oval, touching each other.

Distribution.

China (Yunnan, Hainan; Fig. 48 View Figure 48 ).